From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 64168 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2016 04:45:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 64125 invoked by uid 89); 16 Sep 2016 04:45:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*RU:64.59.134.13, Hx-spam-relays-external:64.59.134.13, purple, inglis X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 04:45:08 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([174.0.238.184]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id kl1NbgcuXFfiXkl1ObMFfB; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:45:06 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=Qb8khYTv c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=WqCeCkldcEjBO3QZneQsCg==:117 a=WqCeCkldcEjBO3QZneQsCg==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=HiWkEfo4AAAA:8 a=b4eMD0GmHX_ZvWjD-W0A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=OGSpAv-gN5wA:10 a=_QplDg0m8TGAdENQf2wZ:22 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: mintty shows some text in other than foreground color References: To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:21:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfDoLaZuea1SJYY61ZnenfnbhSkxyHFtT6OtcasLKTpKfBuEaK/UZ8vcryLEY21PEyVnB6tncN7fCC3pL9GjoIQ0DozrsTsEqsaMFSS1cf6+tSuiZZ0bz /I9p4B2nELcQ2BfhYIUaBU9dySDMwP4+Jga3jlhGb941hzni6eNGDBwATD+5ypDbhlQ69mFrpIjPig== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00223.txt.bz2 On 2016-09-15 14:47, David Karr wrote: > When I run mintty, the background is white, and normal text is black. > This is fine. However, there are some applications that are > displaying text in other colors, many of which are fine, but some apps > display some text in yellow, which on a white background is almost > unreadable. > > For instance, the display from Cassandra's "cqlsh" shows the results > of queries in black, purple (probably not quite right), and yellow. > The worst part is, it's using yellow for the column values. > > Is there any way to control this, in general (obviously, not just for > cqlsh output)? See http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#h2-Operating-System-Controls Normal ANSI escapes start with CSI 0x9b or \e[, these start with OSC 0x9d or \e], and end with ST 0x9c or \e\\, or BEL ctrl-G, 0x07 or \a. See Ps = 4 ; c ; spec → Change colour c to colour spec, a standard xterm RGB colour word or hex code; the ; c ; spec sequences may be repeated as many times as required before the ST, e.g. for up to 256 colours. See also Ps = 10 default foreground colour and 11 default background colour if you need to temporarily invert the default background and foreground colours, e.g to display curl wttr.in[/CityName] in a normally white window background: #!/bin/bash # wttr.sh - ANSI colour text weather forecast for IP address or city echo -ne '\e]10;white\e\\' echo -ne '\e]11;black\e\\' curl wttr.in sleep 5 echo -ne '\e]10;black\e\\' echo -ne '\e]11;white\e\\' as the colours just don't work without the black background. N.B. The OSC sequences do not appear to be supported by man or less. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple